the way that “you’re losing me” starts off slow and composed and oh im just sitting here thinking but as it progresses it gets more hysterical and desperate and all over the place and she’s going from trying to prove she’s worth it and the best thing at the party to empathizing with him “i wouldn’t marry me either” to try and convince him to fight and to do something and then the slow realization in the end as the song calms down again that he’s made a decision and that’s just it

I know we keep saying "this doesn't change Midnights" but actually over the last month it's been settling in for me that Midnights very much feels like an album written by someone processing the end of a relationship - revisiting old pain, revisiting deep love, reflecting on a lonely future... I don't know. I think this breakup was a very slow burn and you can hear that on Midnights.

something in the "there's many different ways that you can kill the one you love / the slowest way is never loving them enough" to the "how can you say that you love someone you can't tell has died" pipeline

"old taylors" standing trapped behind a glass cage while she stands in front of them and performs is high-key giving he's got my past frozen behind glass. but i've got me. im shaking